combine_docxs.py

# pip install docxcompose  
# Combines all word files under docs folder
import os
from pathlib import Path

from docxcompose.composer import Composer

from docx import Document as Document_compose


def combine_all_docx(filename_master, files_list, output_file='combined_files.docx'):
    number_of_sections = len(files_list)
    master = Document_compose(filename_master)
    composer = Composer(master)
    for i in range(0, number_of_sections):
        doc_temp = Document_compose(files_list[i])
        composer.append(doc_temp)
    composer.save(output_file)


filename_master = "master.docx"
files = [d.absolute() for d in Path('docs').glob('*.docx')]
combine_all_docx(filename_master, files)